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The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 Episode 20 – Life's Ruff

Luigi has arrived at the castle of King Windbag. As Luigi enters the dining room, he believes he is being yelled at by King Windbag, and ducks from a cooked turkey that had been thrown in his direction. Luigi then realizes that King Windbag had been bossing his servant around. Right after he properly greets Luigi, King Windbag bluffs about how the floor is dirty and orders his servant to mop it up.

Luigi tells Windbag that he has been sent over by Princess Toadstool so that he could try to make him less of a bully. Windbag thinks Luigi is bluffing, then pulls out his magic wand and threatens to shoot his servant, demanding for him to serve him a cooked duck. As the servant runs off, Windbag comments that a dog would make a better servant. Overhearing this comment, the servant tells himself that he might as well be a dog due to Windbag's harshness.

As the servant walks off, Hip and Hop Koopa, who had been hiding behind a pillar, get an idea upon hearing the servant complain, noting that King Koopa had told them to follow Luigi so that they could cause trouble for him. After Windbag yells for his duck, the servant returns with a covered plate, only to be tripped by Hip. While Hip puts on the servant's hat, Hop hides on the covered plate.

When Hip enters Windbag's throne room disguised as the servant, Hop leaps out from under the covered plate and steals Windbag's wand from out of his hand. As Windbag tries to get his wand back, Hop throws it over to Hip, who uses it to transform the king into a bulldog. Luigi tries to take the wand back from Hip, but Hip throws it to Hop, who in turn uses it transform Luigi into a gray mutt.

With Windbag and Luigi as dogs, the two of them chase Hip and Hop out of the castle and down several flights of stairs to the ground. A Ptooie pops out of a Warp Pipe and tries to shoot Luigi, but it misses. Luigi chases Hip and Hop up onto some platforms, but is assaulted by a Lakitu that throws a Spiny at him. As Hip and Hop climb into a pipe, Hop knocks him back with the wand before they go down it. Left with no other options, Luigi and Windbag follow Hip and Hop down the pipe.

At the other end of the warp, Luigi and Windbag find themselves crawling out of a manhole in the Real World, more specifically, Miami, Florida. The two of them hide in the manhole as a trackless train drives over their heads, and when they come out again, Luigi spots Hip and Hop riding on the back seat.

Trivia & Bloopers

In the original version: When King Windbag's servant screams, he has Toad's voice. The reporter mentions that the Koopalings drive a red car, but the car is actually blue. This error is corrected in the French, Italian, and Latin American Spanish dubs of the episode.
In some scenes, the "L" on Luigi's cap is missing.
When King Windbag orders his servant to mop the floor, his right cheek flashes. This also occurs when he takes out his wand when demanding him to get his food, along with his forehead being the same color as his hair.
In his initial appearance, Hop's hair turns completely pink.
This episode is a callback to Super Mario Bros. 3. Like the game, a king has his wand stolen and is turned into an animal, and a Mario brother has to retrieve the wand. The episode even features the same Koopaling who took over Ice Land in Super Mario Bros. 3, Lemmy Koopa, though in the game, he was not accompanied by Iggy Koopa. Although King Windbag is turned into a dog, Ice Land's king in the original game is turned into a seal, while the one in Grass Land is turned into a dog.
After the dogs refuse to listen to King Windbag when he orders them to line up, Luigi says, "Leaping labadors!", which appears to be a play on the titular character's catchphrase of the comic strip Little Orphan Annie "Leaping Lizards!" The catchphrase is later parodied in the Super Mario World episode "Rock TV", where Mario says "Leapin' lasagna!" when confronting the green Tyrannosaurus Twin.